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Date: Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:18 PM<br>Subject: Ask accountability and immediate resignation of rectors who order police violence to terrorize peaceful students<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br>
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<font style="font-weight: normal;" size="4">Open Letter to Chancellor Linda P.B.�Katehi</font></h1><div style="line-height: 24px; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-size: 12px;">
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</span></div></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">"<span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When you ordered police outfitted with riot helmets, brandishing batons and teargas guns to remove their tents today, those students sat down on the ground in a circle and linked arms to protect them."</span></span><div>
<br></div><div><div><font size="4">"The fact is: the administration of UC campuses systematically uses police brutality to terrorize students and faculty, to crush political dissent on our campuses, and to suppress free speech and peaceful assembly. Many people know this. Many more people are learning it very quickly.</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">You are responsible for the police violence directed against students on the UC Davis quad on November 18, 2011. As I said, I am writing to hold you responsible and to demand your immediate resignation on these grounds."</font></div>
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"Several of these students were hospitalized. Others are seriously injured. One of them, forty-five minutes after being pepper-sprayed down his throat, was still coughing up blood.</p><p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
This is what happened. You are responsible for it.</p><p style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
You are responsible for it because this is what happens when UC Chancellors order police onto our campuses to disperse peaceful protesters through the use of force: students get hurt. Faculty get hurt."</p></span></font></div>
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